My take on Mysterious Skin is that it's a Gregg Araki film. It's designed to be shocking and crude and confrontational and unhappy. That said, it's the most professional, coherent, and pretty Gregg Araki film I've ever seen, so.

One of the things I like about it is that its premise is to debunk the stories people invent to make their lives have a narrative. Both of the protagonists are mired in their own self-fictions (one more obviously fiction than the other), and the film empathizes with the impulse to fiction, even as it strips those fictions away one by one.

I randomly caught part of MS on showtime a while back and didn't get to see very much, but was intrigued and downloaded it. i haven't yet found a time to watch it and i'm pretty sure i know how depressing it's going to be and i will have to be in the right frame of mind to watch it.

what i did watch last night was The Jane Austen Book Club. i thought it was a very well done chick flick. Hugh Dancy was so adorable i wanted to smish him.

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I'm really excited to see Tom Felton's acting in Half-Blood Prince. In 372 days.

And from all things I've seen, they are including the Lavendar plot line so I might be able to talk someone into making my vid after all.

Woot!

They've announced the actress who is playing Lavender:

[link]

Oh she's totally cute!!

I'm confused. Isn't Lavender black?

I don't remember it being stated as such. I vaguely remember a reference to blonde hair.

I'm confused. Isn't Lavender black?

I thought she's been in earlier movies played by a black girl. am confused also.

I thought she's been in earlier movies played by a black girl. am confused also.

Yeah, I thought she was black too. Then they had an open casting call for girls of all races this summer. I think I read that the person "playing" Lavender before was only an extra.

In this picture [link]

I think she's thrid from the left, but that's based on process of elimination. I'm unable to find a picture of Jennifer Smith on Google - I'm getting conflicting pictures.